Show HN: Building a tool to help overworked cybersecurity teams with no budget (beyondmachines.net)

5 points by spirovskib ↗ HN
There is too much of everything in cybersecurity. Noise, FUD, unfulfilled sales promises, incidents, things to address, information to process, technologies to look at, people to educate.

I am working as a CISO and it's mostly my job to raise awareness, understand all the risks, track all current issues and prioritize them, and be able to communicate all that with proper references and examples to our management team.

I've been building and dogfooding a tool that ingests much of the noise and provides focused notifications per cybersecurity topic and regular awareness texts. The idea was to help me filter, decide and prioritise.

But I see value in being able to use the same information to help everyone on the internet, but most importantly the people tasked with cybersecurity spend less time processing input data, working out what and how to educate people and finding supporting facts and references when talking to the decision makers.

BeyondMachines delivers email messages of filtered and easy to read notifications, knowledge articles and statistics to enable the one-man armies of security do their magic. We are also building a dashboard to help with trends and statistics - because they make sense when put in proper context.

The core notification package is free forever - notifications that impact all of us, for Operating Systems, Mobile Phones, Applications that we all use and awareness that we can all benefit from.

Unfortunately we can't not have a registration since it's a notification service. But it's super easy to register and to unsubscribe. We only get an email address, and we delete it once you've unsubscribed from all topics.

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That sounds like a great idea, keep it up!
Thanks. I'll try to work out as many functionalities as possible to make our lives easier
Just got my first advisory...must say looks promising. Good job @spirovskib.
I really like the idea! I'm going to sign up for it.
Is your cybersecurity team understaffed, overworked and underbudgeted? Are they expected to solve all problems and drive improvement, while working through information noise and disbelief from users, engineers and management? We feel such security team deserve help in keeping their focus on the key priorities, most pressing threats and continuous education of the organization. Our platform provides filtered and easy to process key notifications, knowledge articles and statistics to enable the one-man armies of security do their magic. The core notification package is free forever - notifications that impact all of us